Melanoma: ‘I was given months to live — thanks to immunotherapy I hope for a long, healthy life’
Diagnosed with metastatic cancer, Lesley McDonald was told she wouldn’t make it to Christmas. Now three years later, she is travelling the world after a breakthrough in treatment.
Lesley McDonald is travelling the world after success of her immunotherapy treatment for cancer
Emily Hourican
Lesley McDonald, who just turned 72, lives in Australia but is travelling around Morocco and southern France when we talk — something she says is “a miracle.” She had been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic melanoma and told she had only a few months left to her.
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